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Born in London, England, on November 17, 1887, Sir Bernard Montgomery was a field marshal in the British armed forces and one of the leading commanders of Allied operations in WWII. He commanded a British division in France in 1940 and after the Dunkirk evacuation he was in charge of southeastern England as the British prepared for a German attack. In August 1942, Montgomery became the commander of the British 8th army in North Africa which had been forced to retreat to Egypt by the commander of the German Afrika Korp, Rommel. After restoring the morale of his men, Montgomery pushed the Axis forces back in the second Battle of Al-Alamein in November, eventually pushing them back to Tunisia by the spring of 1943. After his success in North Africa, Montgomery led divisions in the Allied campaigns in Sicily, Italy, Operation Overlord in Normandy, and Operation Market-Garden in the Netherlands. The German northern armed forces surrendered to Montgomery in Lüneberg on May 4, 1945. For his services to Britain, Montgomery was knighted in 1942 and made a viscount in 1946. As a military leader, his confidence, and insistence on caution and complete preparation often brought him into conflict with the other Allied commanders, yet won him respect and popularity among his soldiers. (en-US)

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Dear, I.C.B., ed. The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford and New York : Oxford Univerisity Press, 1995. p. 757-758

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